Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Innovation and systems


Innovation is often perceived to be a light bulb moment that is just brilliant, and then everyone lives happily ever after. However, innovation is not like that. It requires on-going effort to innovate. Continuous effort is required for both small step and disruptive innovation.

This effort is a problem if allowed to be a haphazard effort. Systems need to be implemented in order to enforce a systematic and systemic approach to innovation. This means understanding the areas where innovation is needed and most likely and equally where it is not perceived to be needed.

Examples of this system would include implementing a regular PESTEL analysis. This would require that tasks are allocated to various individuals and then regular updates provided to the broader team, and then discussed.

How do you innovate in your organisation?